Railroad-ticket



(No Model.)

J. GILLESPIE.

RAILRGAD TICKET.

No. 590,393. Patented Sept. 21,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES GILLESPIE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS..

RAILROAD-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,393, datedSeptember 21, 1897. Application led May 9,1892. Renewed February 17,1897. Serial No. 623,897. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Janus GILLEsPIE, of the city of Chicago, county ofCook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Railroad-Tickets, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to that style of ticket known as the duplex ortwo-part ticket, one part being retained by the agent and the othergiven to the person for the passage. A coupon or cash-fare-receiptticket may also come within the range of its use.

The object of my invention is to produce a ticket that cannot befraudulently manipulated by either passenger or agent and upon which thestations, distance, or amounts collected may be quickly, accurately, andeffectively indicated.` I accomplish this by a means illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in whichl Figure 1 represents the duplex ortwo-part ticket folded for manipulation and the cut of the manipulatoror cutter shown. Fig. 2 represents the ticket opened after the manipQulation and ready to be separated. v

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the views.

In the drawings, A represents the agents part of the ticket known as theagents stub,7 while A represents the part to be used for the passage bythe person. These' two parts are alike in the matter of the names ofstations and the various limit and classifica-y tion marks, and whenfolded as shown in Fig. 1 the markings on the passage-ticket aredirectly below their corresponding ones on the agents stub, so apunch-mark or cut through the stub will mark both alike.

In front of the name of each station is the station-number D D', saidnumber being the one that is ordinarily used to indicate the station.Between these numbers and .the edge of the folded ticket, Fig. 1, is aset of numbers C C, ranging in order from 17 to 0, said numbers beingarranged so as to fill the entire' marginal space allotted to thestations and are made by printing a dark space about the number, leaving said number the color of the paper.

Any other like arrangement may be used as would be found suitable-as,for instance, the use of letters instead of numbers-the object being toprevent the moving of the notch from one part of the ticket to anotherwithout detection, as the cutting of the notch from one part of a ticketand an attempt to place' it in the one cut by the agent, and this wouldbe easily detected on account of the disflgurement of the number orletter that would take place. This set of numbers or'letters is uponeach part of the ticket, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 2.

Between the two parts of the ticket is the perforated or cutting line EE, which will enable the two parts of the ticket to be separatedreadily.

In manipulating this ticket the folded ticket represented in Fig. l istaken bythe agent and, with a cutter made for the purpose, a cut B B istaken out of the numbered edge of the ticket, said cut taking out thenumbers D D' opposite the name of the destinationstation and also eithera part or the Whole of one of the protective numbers or letters C C.

The ticket is then classed and limited, as may.

be desired, after which the ticket is opened, as illustrated in Fig. 2,in which the two cuts B B are shown and also the two sets of numbers CC' and'D D', which have been described. The ticket is then separatedalong the perforated or cutting line E E, one part being given for thepassage and the other retained by the agent ,to be returned to theauditor.

By the use of this ticket the destinationstation .will be clearly andunalterably indicated.

This method of manipulation may also be used with the coupon-ticket usedfor passage on the various roads of a system of railroads. In this casethe coupons are folded, each having the station name and number, and ineach folded margin is placed the protective numbers or letters. Beingfolded in this way the cut or notch is made as in an ordinary duplexticket, and the coupons may then be taken 0E as required, each havingits proper mark and protective numbers. In cash-fare receipts theamounts of money are substituted for the stations, while the numbered orlettered margin is used to prevent any change or mistake on the part ofagents or company as to the amount of money collected.

Having thus described my improvement,

roo`

what I claim as my invention, and desire to l naine of a station, aportion of the symbol I secure by Letters Patent, isy will be punchedout and a portion will re- In a railroad-ticket, a fold-line perforatedina-in, the portion punched out being unftted or imperforated, columnson each side thereto ina-tch elsewhere in the column of symbols, ofdesignating stations, the spaces between as and for the purpose setforth. v these Columns and the fold-line being oeeu- JAMES GILLESPIE.pied by arbitrary symbols, letters or gures, t Vitnesses: each of suchlength that when a portion of EDWIN G. LANCASTER,

the ticket is punched out opposite to the l FRED YV. HERSEY.

